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Nukes actually exploding is a "personal subjective experience"?
I have no need to refute silly strawmen.
Nukes actually explode.
The ability to get sh!t done.
You should really stop infusing your own personal meaning into what people say and then demand those people to justify your personal meaning instead of what they actually meant.
A method that gets you to build things that actually work, seems pretty useful in my world.
No and unknown.
Unknown? Alright then
That is simply not true. There are a great many questions we humans have that science cannot even address, let alone answer with any degree of certainty. Not the least of which are all those questions we humans have about the complex proposition labelled "God". And all those questions we humans have related to the concept of fate, and destiny, and the meaning and purpose of it all.I agree, science does not seek to proclaim certainty. However it has the ability seek certainty (for most things) better then anything else on Earth and that's a fact!
Yes, it's all very silly, isn't it. People that have no idea what God is and yet believe that there is no God, then busily proclaiming that everyone else's idea of God is wrong, and is just silly superstition. And the amazing thing is that no matter how many times the irrationality of this behavior is pointed out to them, they still can't see it. They have so fully convinced themselves that what they don't know means they know more than everyone else.
But we don't need more control. We are about to control ourselves to extinction. What we need is more wisdom. And science does nothing for us in that regard. Nothing. Yet you continue to disparage the areas of human endeavor that does pursue wisdom, while you way over-exaggerate the positive influence of science. Do you WANT mankind to destroy itself?
What is science doing to help those on the "dingbat fringe" of society besides giving them ever more powerful weapons to run amok with? Meanwhile the scientism crowd tries to disparage every course of inquiry that is intended to seek wisdom over knowledge because it has not achieved that goal to their satisfaction? And these idiots consider themselves "critical thinkers"? Not hardly!
I do not accuse science of anything but being science. The problem is that you cannot see science as science because all you can see is your own hyper-glorified mythical version of science. So when I attack that mythical scientism nonsense, you think I am attacking science.
That being the only way anything has ever been known, or ever will be known. And yet for some reason you truly cannot grasp this.
Why would I care about that?
You nailed it. The hard problem of consciousness.
I can't say that I understand what that means after the first clause. I did define what it is that I am saying that I don't believe exists when I say that I don't have a god belief. And although I believe many things, I "believe in" nothing. That phrase implies faith to me.
Wisdom is a type of knowledge. It's knowing how to live to achieve one's ultimate goals, which is usually to be comfortable and content. Lower-level knowledge is knowing how to achieve your immediate goals, that is, knowing how the world works. The higher-level knowledge is knowing how to work those levers to achieve those ultimate goals.
I believe that you didn't understand him. He wrote, "Of course I recognize the concept of God (and gods, and all supernatural entities). The only way in which such things are known to exist is as concepts, notions, things imagined in individual brains." What he's telling you is that gods are not known to exist, that the idea of a god has no known real referent. Compare wolves and werewolves. Both are concepts, but one has an actual referent in reality. One refers to something actual and the other to something only imagined.
Actually, wisdom is knowing what goals to set, and why. Which may or may not have anything to do with one’s comfort.
The scientism cultists think everything is about functionality. Unfortunately they completely disregard the more important issue of intention and purpose.
You are both foolishly defining existence as a physical phenomenon. When it’s actually a metaphysical conceptualization. But your philosophical materialist philosophy doesn’t allow you to accept this. So you just keep making the same mistake over and over and over.
